Surprise, surprise,


the educational system in the US is broken. After many years of, 'No Child Left Behind', that dumbed down the whole system, and set the bar so low a slug could barely crawl under it, we have dropped from #1, to about #25. The teachers have to spend all their time with the lowest common denominator, so they can get funded. This is the future of our country, and all you gotta do is talk with a teacher to see how it was screwed up. Thanks again, George, for bringing the country down to your level. Race to the Top is at least addressing the problem and funding it. About time....

Comments

Anonymous said…
Just can't let him go, can you?
Fam Guy said…
Kinda hard to ignore when you see all the headlines about the trouble our country is in. Forces you to look at WHY? Pretty obvious on a lot of fronts. Gonna take a LONG time to recover from what this cowboy did to us.
ladyj said…
Hate to tell you this, FG, but our school system has been in dire straits for many moons now, prior to the Bush administration. It began it's nose dive after the Kennedy and Johnson era, actually. Parents not giving a damn; schools raising kids; working mothers; single mothers; welfare; declining tax base. The blame lies everywhere, but not at the feet of Dubya, this time, Big Guy.
Fam Guy said…
I agree he's not totally to blame, but he puhed it in the wrong direction w/No Child Get Ahead program that took teachers time from the upper students and forced them to 'teach for the test' so they can get funding.
Anonymous said…
Being a teacher myself, I can acknowledge that the idea for No Child Left Behind came from a caring place (so that the lower students don't slip through the cracks) but was put into place completely wrong. Teachers time is being placed with the lower 10% of our classes because the other students will be "fine". The upper students are not getting challenged and the middle students are being left alone. Instead of helping with funding (so that we can hire more teachers and paras to work with the lower kiddos) they are cutting our funding and raising our class size. don't forget, the amount of funding that each school gets is based on standardized testing.
****Also Colorado is one of the lowest for funding to start with. Always vote to increase school funding please. Even if that means your property taxes go up $50 dollars a year.
Fam Guy said…
Thanks for the feedback, teacher. That is what I had heard from my daughter, who is also a teacher.
Anonymous said…
I really like that intelligent look on George's face.
ladyj said…
Sometimes you just can't count on the school levies to pass.

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